How to negotiate a pay rise and how to deal with a request for a pay rise
Reading Time: 4 minutesHow to negotiate a pay rise and how to deal with a request for a pay rise – article by Ten Percent Legal Recruitment for solicitors and employers.
Careers Advice
How should a legal CV look in 2022?
Reading Time: 4 minutesDo legal CVs in the 2020s need to be completely revamped and have a specific format because of the way most CVs are now processed by potential employers? – eg keywords, applicant tracking systems ATS, videos and online information.
in Careers Advice, Changing Jobs, Job Applications, Training Contracts, Pupillage and Work Experience
Returning to law, changing fields of law or starting out in law – what do I need to do?
Reading Time: 4 minutesReturning to law, changing fields of law or starting out in law – what do I need to do? Get work experience. Article by Ten Percent Legal.
10 Top Interview Tips for Interviewers
Reading Time: 6 minutesTen top tips for interviewing techniques – a guide for employers from Jonathan Fagan, MD of Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Interim Lawyers.
Job Interviews – 10 Top Tips for Candidates
Reading Time: 4 minutes10 Top Tips for Interviews – candidate guide from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, solicitor recruitment specialists in the UK.
Interview Question and Answer 52 – Why haven’t you had many interviews?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInterview Question and Answer 52 – Why haven’t you had many interviews? An article including an example answer from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Interview Question 51 – Give an example of how a situation or project that had a positive outcome depended on the work of people from a wide range of backgrounds and ideas.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInterview Question 51 – Give an example of how a situation or project that had a positive outcome depended on the work of people – suggested answer.
Rewards & Benefits to Employees in the Legal Sector
Reading Time: 5 minutesOur experiences (as business owners and legal recruiters) of providing rewards and benefits to our employees and those we see in the legal profession.
Sh*t Happens – Bad Things on CVs
Reading Time: 4 minutesHow to explain away bad things on CVs (or not) – article from Jonathan Fagan at Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Interview Question & Answer 50 – Give an example of a recent commercial deal that captured your attention
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLegal Job Interview Question & Answer from Jonathan Fagan, MD of Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
CV Review – LLB Graduate Administrator
Reading Time: 5 minutesFull CV Review – LLB Graduate Administrator – from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Interview Question & Answer 49 – Give an example of a project or task that you felt compelled to complete on your own. What stopped you from delegating?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGive an example of a project or task that you felt compelled to complete on your own. What stopped you from delegating? Answer from Ten Percent Legal
Legal CV Review for LPC Student – Free CV Review
Reading Time: 6 minutesA free legal CV review for an LPC student. The LPC student has given us permission to provide advice with their name redacted. For details of our CV Review service, please visit www.ten-percent.uk – our legal careers site.
CV for Final Year Law Student – Free CV Review
Reading Time: 5 minutesCV for Final Year Law Student – Free CV Review from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Ten Percent Legal Careers Services.
Is Age a Factor on My CV?
Reading Time: 3 minutesArticle outlining experience of age discrimination from a legal recruitment perspective. Jonathan Fagan of Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Contract Manager or Legal Counsel – Tailoring Job Applications
Reading Time: 3 minutesHow to frame a commercial contracts manager job title when the work is as in-house legal counsel dealing with commercial contracts.
Interview Question 48 – Explain the organisational structure in your last company and how you fitted into it?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInterview question and answer – explain the organisational structure in your last company and how you fitted into it? Advice from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
I have been awarded a third class degree in law and I am having a crisis. Help!
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have been awarded a third class degree in law and I am having a crisis. Help! Article from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment. Don’t panic.
Interview Question & Answer – Do You Work Well with Others?
Reading Time: 2 minutesInterview Question 47 – Do you work well with others, or are you a loner? Suggested answer from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Getting into commercial work after doing a high street training contract, is it possible?
Reading Time: 3 minutesGetting into commercial work after doing a high street training contract, is it possible? Article from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Jonathan Fagan MD.
Interview Question 46 – Do you prefer to work in a small, medium or large company?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAdvice This is a very loaded question and one that has been asked in interviews up and down the country with the wrong answer given on numerous occasions. During a range of practice interviews I have regularly asked this question and been amazed at the response given. Interviewees often think it is the chance to…
I am available for locum work but I don’t have my own limited company – will I have to work on a PAYE basis?
Reading Time: 2 minutesI am available for locum work but I don’t have my own limited company – will I have to work on a PAYE basis? No. An article by Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Interview Question & Answer 45 – Do you need other people around to stimulate you or are you self-motivated?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInterview question on self-motivation and suggested answers from Jonathan Fagan at Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Locums Covering More Than One Field of Law
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe often get partners of law firms contacting us to request details of locums who are able to do conveyancing and wills and probate, residential and commercial conveyancing and many more besides. Is it feasible?
CV Review for Newly Qualified Solicitor
Reading Time: 5 minutesFree CV Review for a Newly Qualified Solicitor from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment – legal careers and CV writing services for lawyers and law graduates.
Interview Question 44 – Do you mind working for someone older than yourself? Younger than you?
Reading Time: 2 minutesInterview questions and answers from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment – working for someone younger than you.
Help – I Can’t Get a Training Contract – What Am I Doing Wrong?
Reading Time: 5 minutesHelp to get a training contract – advice from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, specialists for the legal profession since 2000.
Interview Question and Answer – Do you know how to motivate other people?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInterview question and answer on knowing how to motivate people.
Should I go back and re-sit my A levels (DDD) – I want to join a Magic Circle law firm
Reading Time: 3 minutesShould I go back and re-sit my A levels (DDD) in order to get into a Magic Circle law firm? Advice from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
in Careers Advice, News
Legal Recruitment News February 2021
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLegal Recruitment News from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment for February 2021. Includes legal job market reports, hourly rate guides for locums, video CVs, independent legal advice service, redoing A levels to join city law firms.